This is what power fetishists always do: assume the power will be used in ways they like. (And since the ends are noble, they surely must justify the means, right?) Sometimes it is. But power changes hands, and the inheritors may be a rather different sort. The people pushing for more government power never seem to think of thatuntil it's too late.

They trying to show that Tea Partiers don’t have leanings to personal liberty? Maybe they aren’t head over heels for free dope of any and all sorts with no adult supervision, but otherwise they overlap greatly with libertarian ideals.